From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 14:28:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D4F16A428; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C04F43D7B; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:27:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IS9007RHK5AOAC0@l-daemon>; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:27:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IS90029TK5AYGG0@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca>; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:27:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IS900JAWK5AZCJ2@l-daemon>; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:27:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:26:53 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <43B3EEF9.3010004@freebsd.org> To: Mark Ovens Message-id: <43B3F22D.5070601@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 References: <200512071741.03088.kstewart@owt.com> <43B3EEF9.3010004@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051228) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart , eoghan Subject: Re: pkgdb format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:28:58 -0000 Mark Ovens wrote: > After reading this thread, I killed the upgrade, deleted INDEX-6, > INDEX-6.db, and pkgdb.db; rebuilt pkgdb.db using `pkgdb -u' and re-ran > `portupgrade -af' > > It started off OK (using dbm_hash) but after a couple of hours it had > started continually rebuilding pkgdb.db. > > Anyone else got any ideas? I had exactly the same problem during portupgrading after a 5.4->6.0 base system upgrade until I did a `portupgrade -fR portupgrade`, at which point it stopped (and has been fine ever since). I have no idea what the problem is or why this would fix it, but you might like to try this and see if it helps. Colin Percival